Nancy Haitz wrote:
> You don't have to install it internally either. Alan Kim has always > had great success booting his S900 from an external CD-RW drive. --------------- I used to be stumped and bothered by the non-bootablility of the factory Matshita drives. Tried and no longer interested in hacked drivers and other stuff that's been mentioned that has worked for many listers. Mine is a 24x drive that came with Supermacs just before the company ceased operation. It's been perfectly fine for ripping tracks from CDs, reading data, and and other reading functions. Our Supermacs' external SCSI port is fairly reliable and always available when the internal stuff goes haywire. I've been able to boot from the external SCSI burner with the Com/Opt/Shft/Del buttons without failure - knock on wood. In addition to running maintenance utilities such as Disk Warrior from it, it has saved me when I needed to reacquire the hard drives with Hard Disk Speed Tools or fresh installing OS. (Ofcourse if you have a bootable CD drive built-in, you're ok.) Another advantage to an external SCSI drive or burner is the original internal non-Apple ROM'd Matshita CD drive can still be used for running the OS install disc after booting from the external. You have a second CD drive available. To explain further, I've had good results installing OS if the OS install disc itself isn't used as the boot disc. (I've run into some quirks trying to both boot from and install from the OS install disc.) Boot from an external CD drive (burner in my case) using something like HDST, then run the OS install on the internal CD drive. (If you load the Mac OS install disc in the external CD drive and boot from it, my experience has been the Matshita drive becomes non-functional.) This sounds more troublesome then it is. One less thing to mess around with the internals of the s900 and I still retain use of the 24x Matshita drive which works just fine for most things I need to do except for booting from it. Dispite what's been said about workarounds to be able to boot from the Matshita drives, I find it simpler to to just boot from an external. As mentioned in previous posts, I have a 8x16 LaCie burner and a 4x2x6 Yamaha CDRW. The Yamaha was purchased new for around $500 (yikes) and is now wrapped up and stored as a backup. The LaCie someone gave it to me in its original box after it was replaced with a faster burner. I've mentioned this in one form or another in previous threads. Hope this helps. Alan -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
